A presentation of documents of Erv Wilson that don't lend themselves to a separate section in the archives yet are illuminating in their thought or implications.
Often comprised of sketches or notes found among his papers

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Here Wilson worked out the possibility of using a Hexany as a meeting place between a harmonic and subharmonic series having no tones in common. the Second example here shows the two complementary series this time up the the 13 (or 15) (sub)harmonics still limited to 12 tones.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

As the Archives has grown and will continue to do so, we have now broken up the various subheading into separate pages. This we believe makes viewing much easier.
So you please reload the page http://anaphoria.com/wilson.html
In the first Basic Section we have added a very early letter to Ivor Darreg and John Chalmers.http://anaphoria.com/LetterDarregChalmers.pdf
and on the keyboard page http://anaphoria.com/wilsonkeyboard.html
the last 6 items are new starting with the Alphabet series.There is just too much here to discuss at the moment with these but those well versed in keyboards should have little problem.
Feedback always welcome

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Since there is some discussion of this material elsewhere, we provide a link to some preliminary studies by Wilson done on some of Akkoc obsevations and research into Turkish Music.http://anaphoria.com/akkocletter.pdf

The later pages show Wilson's investigating the Moments of Symmetry (MOS) scale properties of some of these intervals in regard to using them as generators of scales. We will return to this sometime in the future.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Wilson shows how the 1/x pattern can be applied to approximating 12 tone ET by JI intervals. A discussion of the 1/x pattern can be found here under section
FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS BY WILSON BEYOND THIS LETTER

Often it is the asides , the very brief and discarded that can reveal something we might not be able to witness otherwise. While we continue in our quest to present Erv Wilsons work in a context that serves it best there are those documents that are too brief to present in a PDF format or fit well being group with other documents. As someone who has worked with his material for over 20 years, often these small gems hit me with surprise .

Also much i found helpful in understanding other things about his work in an elusive and intangible way that is hard to put into words. A blog seems a good form for this work and not quite sure what one could have done otherwise